Thursday 23 July 2009

TV

TV as ‘chewing gum for the eyes’ is a good phrase, not least because it connects the vacuity of endless telly-goggling with an oral pleasure, a sort of physical as well as specular consumption. The logic has changed, though, I think: the confessional and ‘reality’ bias has turned the box into a sort of virtual national vomitorium.

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